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Hold them accountable! When criminals are not treated harshly, bad things happen

When criminals are not treated seriously, when they are given lenient plea bargain deals, and when they are let out of jail early, or never jailed at all, bad things can happen. From the Lexington Herald-Leader:

Gary Wilburn Elmore, photo by Fayette County Detention Center, and is a public record.

Lexington man, previous offender accused of sexually assaulting a woman under his care

by Christopher Leach | Friday, July 15, 2022 | 8:24 AM EDT

A Lexington man who was previously convicted of a sexual assault crime has been charged with rape and and sexual abuse, according to court records.

Gary Elmore, 52, is accused of sexually assaulting a female while she was asleep. Elmore’s arrest citation said he was the victim’s care taker and the abuse happened daily while the victim was under his care for approximately one month.

The victim is a vulnerable adult and relied on Elmore for care and assistance for completion of nearly all daily living activities, according to court documents.

Elmore is listed on the Kentucky State Police sex offender registry for pleading guilty to third degree rape in 2010 in Jefferson County. Court records show the charge was amended down from first degree rape and he was sentenced to five years of supervised probation.

Elmore was also charged with failure to comply with the sex offender registry twice — later in 2010 and again in 2012, per court records. He pleaded guilty in 2010 to attempting to not comply with the registry. He pleaded guilty in 2012 to failing to comply.

At this point I would normally write that there’s more at the original, but there isn’t; Christopher Leach’s story is only those five paragraphs long.

Mr Elmore would seem to fall into the category of “was known to the police.” His record at the Fayette County Detention Center shows not just one, but five separate mugshots, dated September 15, 2015, December 5, 2021, December 25, 2021, June 16, 2022, and July 14, 2022. The first two mugshots are identical, so it is possible that the Merry Christmas mugshot was to replace the duplicate one used twenty days previously.

Under KRS §510.040, first degree rape is a Class B felony, the punishment for which is a minimum of ten years to a maximum of 20 years under KRS §532.060. Had the charge not been amended down, Mr Elmore could still have been behind bars when he (allegedly) raped his victim.

Under KRS §510.060, third degree rape is a Class D felony, punishable by 1 to 5 years in prison. While I certainly don’t like that Mr Elmore was allowed to plead down, this could very well have been to save the victim further trauma from having to testify in court, something I do understand.

However, he was given 5 years probation, with apparently no jail time at all, and twice tried to evade the sex offender registry, which should have resulted in him being sent to prison, but if he was, the story does not tell us.

A first offense of failure to comply with sex offender registry requirements is a Class D felony under KRS §17.510, the penalty for which is 1 to 5 years in prison, and each subsequent offense is a Class C felony, the sentence for which is a minimum of 5 years to a maximum of 10 years. The victim would not have to testify for this. While the first plea bargain could have been made to save the victim from having to testify, the attempt to evade the register would not have required her testimony; the case could have been made simply via paperwork. The Commonwealth could have locked up this cretin for up to five years on the first offense, which would have made up for him not being jailed previously due to the plea deal.

If he had been sentenced to just one year for that first offense, he would have been free in 2012, the date of his second registry offense, and could have gotten locked up for ten years.

This is a story of a lot of failures by people other than Mr Elmore. Who hired him to work as a caregiver for a mostly helpless woman, despite the fact he was a convicted felon and on the sex offender registry? Did someone check and know about this, and hire him anyway, or did someone simply fail to check the background of a person who was going to be sent into the hole of a disabled woman? In either case, the person who hired him needs to be held accountable.

It has to be asked: just who treated Mr Elmore so leniently in the criminal justice system, leniently enough that he was able to (allegedly) rape a 52-year-old woman who was disabled enough that she required a caregiver? Mr Elmore could have spent at least five years behind bars, though that would not have had him in jail when he (allegedly) raped his helpless victim, but at least the public would have been protected from him for that time. Whoever treated Mr Elmore leniently needs to be held accountable.

Both first degree rape and first degree sodomy (KRS §510.070) are Class B felonies, unless the victim receives a serious physical injury, which would upgrade the charge to a Class A felony, which carries a penalty of not less than 20 nor more than 50 years in prison, or a straight life sentence. The story does not tell us if the victim was injured.

If Mr Elmore is found guilty, he needs to spend the rest of his miserable life behind bars. If he is convicted of both first degree rape and sodomy, he should be sentenced to the maximum, with the sentences set to run consecutively, not concurrently.

The Herald-Leader is telling readers that the Commonwealth’s prisons are once again getting overfilled, but letting criminals out early is not the answer; the answer is to build more prisons to hold the bad guys behind bars for as long as the law allows. This might help deter some of the other bad guys, but it will definitely protect the people of the Bluegrass State.

 

 

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Bidenflation again

We noted that 9.1% June year-over-year inflation rate, and now President Biden tells us that it just ain’t so, but he’s going to deal with it anyway:

Biden Reacts to ‘Unacceptably High’ Inflation Report By Laying Out Three Point Plan to Address Rising Prices

By Colby Hall | Wednesday, July 13, 2022 | 10:16 AM

President Joe Biden reacted to the record high inflation report that was released Wednesday morning by first dismissing the numbers as “out-of-date,” but then laying out his plans to address rising prices.

Hey, it is his administration releasing the figures; is he calling his people liars?

The Consumer Price Index rose to 9.1% for the month of June, which was higher than analysts expected, and the highest rate of inflation since 1981. Biden’s statement opens by calling price increases “unacceptably high” but also said that it was “out-of-date” due to a decrease in gas prices that he says is data not reflected. It is true that gas prices have fallen for nearly 30 days straight, but are still well over a dollar higher per gallon than they were a year ago at this time.

Gasoline prices may have fallen for “nearly 30 days straight,” but fourteen of those 30 days have been in July, not June.

We need Gerald Ford’s “Whip Inflation Now” buttons!

Biden once again blamed the economy on “Putin’s unconscionable aggression” in Ukraine that has disrupted global markets, but perhaps not as much as the White House would like Americans to believe. He also noted the market reaction to “Covid-related challenges” which some might see as a more accurate description of the true cause and effect.

“Tackling inflation is my top priority – we need to make more progress, more quickly, in getting price increases under control,” Biden revealed in his statement before listing a three-part plan. First, he intended to do everything he can to lower gas prices. Second, he is urging Congress to pass legislation that will help lower prices on everyday items like groceries and prescription drugs. Finally, he pledges to work to halt what he calls Republican efforts to raise taxes on working-class people.

If the President could do anything about gasoline prices, shouldn’t he have done so already? It’s not as though fuel prices were great in May!

What, I have to ask, can be done legislatively about “prices on everyday items like groceries and prescription drugs”? Profit margins for grocery stores are small, between 1% and 3%, and if you shrink those, you run them out of business. Smaller grocery stores, like convenience stores and bodegas, have higher profit margins — other than on gasoline — sometimes up to 7.5%, but those are depending on price, not volume like larger grocery stores, to stay open. Anything the Administration does to bring down food prices drives those places out of business.

And, of course, Republicans aren’t te ones trying to raise taxes or prices on the American people; the Democrats are the ones trying to do that!

The government tried everything from 1974 to 1982 to slash inflation, but it was ended the old-fashioned way: with a serious recession. That’s what’s going to happen again.

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I love a green lawn!

This might be a post more suited for The Pirate’s Cove, and I did notify William Teach about the article, but with my nice, brilliantly green lawn, and the whole farm, I just had to write something!

The Suburban Lawn Will Never Be the Same

Homeowners from Las Vegas to Sydney are swapping real grass for artificial turf as climate change forever alters what a normal yard looks and smells like.

By Brian Eckhouse and Siobhan Wagner | Friday, July 8, 2022

The lawn part of the farm. I planted all of the trees myself, and did the brick sidewalk as well.

Judy Dunn moved to her home in the Las Vegas suburbs from Washington state in late 1998, when there was little concern about water levels at nearby lakes. Dunn could nurture the verdant lawn of her dreams in a valley of cacti and sand that developers had recast as an oasis. But then a drought arrived and never left, and now local agencies are fining more residents for wasting water.

For Dunn, the final straw arrived last summer. Lake Mead, historically America’s largest reservoir, plunged to its lowest level since 1937 and the first-ever water cuts were ordered on a Colorado River system that benefits about 40 million people including Dunn. “If we don’t start saving water, we’re not going to have any,” says the 76-year-old.

So, Dunn opted to install an artificial lawn, a choice being made by more and more residents of Southern Nevada—one of the many places that’s getting drier as the planet warms. For some, it’s the cash-for-grass rebates being offered by local water agencies. For others, it’s the realization that the classic lawn is increasingly unsustainable in a time of megadrought. And then there are the residents coaxed into the shift by the water notices or fines.

Well, Las Vegas is in, you know, the desert, with average daily high temperatures reaching 95º F from June 3rd through September 16th, and 105º on July 13th. You move to Vegas, and you get the desert, and desert weather, and desert rainfall.

Beyond the drainage ditch and its too-high weeds is the corn field, another brilliant green part of the farm

For water suppliers worldwide, climate change is raising the stakes. Italy in July declared a state of emergency as water levels in its largest river dropped to the lowest in 70 years. The US Southwest is suffering through the worst drought in over a century. Within the next 30 years, droughts may impact three quarters of the world’s population. While plastic turf poses its own climate challenges, it’s increasingly seen as a viable alternative to real green yards that devour precious water. . . . .

A couple of decades ago, artificial turf was often a thin carpet atop a hard surface—rough on the knees as well as the eyes. Athletes playing on it complained that it wore their legs out. But as the product improved, so did homeowners’ interest. From the US to the UK, artificial grass retailers have seen sales tick up during pandemic lockdowns, when housebound property owners put their money toward home improvements. Indeed, Google Trends shows a worldwide surge in searches for “artificial grass” during the middle of 2020.

I don’t know if it’s still there, because the last time I saw it was the late 1980s, but Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company had, outside their public office, which was not inside the shipyard’s gates, some integrally-colored green concrete where grass would have been expected, by their normal sidewalks! Of course, Newport News got plenty of rain, but this way, the shipyard didn’t have to maintain the grass!

Me? I live in the Bluegrass State, and I’ve got to love all of the rain we get!

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Killadelphia The June shooting statistics are in!

The statistics are out for the Philadelphia Shooting Victims database, and they’re just about as ugly as you’d imagine.

There were 249 people shot in the City of Brotherly Love last month, at least as far as those wounded seriously enough to have sought medical attention. Who knows if there were more victims just grazed, or more shooting incidents in which no one was struck?

In a city in which the population are 18.7% black males, black males suffered 71.89% of the gunshot wounds, and 73.33% of the fatal shootings. While the city government and The Philadelphia Inquirer want to blame gun control laws not being strict enough, I have to ask the obvious question: since those gun control laws apply equally to everyone, black or white, male or female, Hispanic or otherwise, why wouldn’t the number of wounded and killed closely match the percentage of the population by each demographic group?

The Philadelphia Police Department reported a total of 48 homicides for the month, so there were three homicides which did not involve firearms. Through the end of June, 257 homicides, or 1.4199 per day. That puts the city on pace for 518 murders this year. Working the math differently, basing it on the pace of homicides last year, I come up with a projected 533 homicides for the year. Either figure puts the city solidly in second place all time.

Philly’s leaders, Mayor Jim Kenney, District Attorney Larry Krasner, and Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw, should be so very proud of the jobs that they have done!

Note: even though Hispanics can be of any race, all of the victims listed as “Latino” in the database are also listed as white. June is not the only month in which this has occurred, and I suspect that this is a result of very poor gathering of data.

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Some people just can’t tell the difference between comic books and reality

I devoured the Conan the Barbarian books when I was a teenager, starting out with the Lancer Books twelve volume edition. Robert E Howard wrote his original books between 1930 and 1936, and L Sprague deCamp, Lin Carter and Bjorn Nyberg added to it. Published in the 1960s and 70s, the men were strong and brave, while the hero bedded an assortment of nubile, slim but nevertheless voluptuous — how does that work — ladies after slaying countless forms.

Conan was a character which simply could not be left alone, and many authors used Conan as a character, through several publishers, during the 1980s and 90s. The difference? While there were plenty of helpless ladies to be bedded, there were also warrior women, women who could kick ass just as well as any man.

I also read plenty of comic books. In the 1960s, the female superheroines tended to have what I’d call ‘distance powers,’ able to beat the bad guys, but from a distance, not from fisticuffs. Supergirl and Wonder Woman were obvious examples of the latter, while the Invisible Woman might have been able to trip someone unseen — especially before Stan Lee had her discover that she could also create invisible force fields — and the Wasp and Scarlett Witch and Jean Grey worked their wonders from range.

Gradually, the superheroines gained the ability to match, and beat, male villains hand-to-hand. And in the CW Supergirl series, Supergirl beat her cousin Superman in a fair fight.

Well, I have come to the conclusion that today’s American left grew up reading the same things I did, but they did more than read them; they swallowed them whole, and came out believing that women were the physical equal or men in strength, speed, quickness, size, and endurance. Every girl is Supergirl; ever woman is Wonder Woman! So, heck, it’s perfectly normal and reasonable to have males and females competing against each other, and it’s always fair, right? Continue reading →

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Follow the science! If someone was out to destroy transgender acceptance, what would he be doing differently?

I have previously asked if someone was out to destroy transgender acceptance, what would he be doing differently from what Will Thomas, the male swimmer for the University of Pennsylvania who claims to be a woman named ‘Lia’ has done?

Now we have this, from the New York Post:

Trans competitor beats 13-year-old girl in NYC women’s skateboarding contest

By Snejana Farberov | Monday, June 27, 2022 | 8:51 AM EDT | Updated: 9:32 AM EDT

A 29-year-old male beat 13-year-old Shiloh Catori in a skateboarding contest, and the left think that’s perfectly OK.

A 29-year-old transgender woman beat a 13-year-old girl to take home the top prize in a skateboarding contest in New York City, reigniting the debate over whether new inclusivity pushes create an unfair advantage in women’s sports.

As per our Stylebook, we do not change the direct quotes of others, but there is no such thing as a “transgender woman”; there is only a mutilated male.

Ricci Tres, from Los Angeles, who was born a man but now identifies as a woman, won the women’s division of the Boardr Open street skateboarding competition and a $500 prize, with 13-year-old Shiloh Catori, from Florida, coming in second and taking a $250 prize.

The First Street Journal endeavors to use the correct names for those who claim to be ‘transgender,’ but an internet search for “Ricci Tres'” real name failed to find it. He shall be referred to as “Mr Tres” in the parts of this article which are not direct quotes from others. [Updated: June 29, 2022: His name is actually Richard Batres.]

Four of the six finalists were under the age of 17, with the youngest being 10-year-old Juri Iikura, who came in fifth. At 29, Tres was the oldest contestant.

Tres is 838 in the Boardr Global Rankings, compared to Catori’s 133 ranking.

The transgender athlete’s victory sparked an outrage on social media among critics, who blasted Boardr Open for allowing a much older competitor assigned male at birth to face off against biological females — many of them more than half her age.

Sadly, the Post’s stylebook apparently uses the silliness of the ‘transgender’ agenda. People are not “assigned” a sex at birth; they are recognized as being what their sex actually is.

It was discovered a hundred years ago that the sex of humans and other mammals was determined by the XX (female) or XY (male) chromosomal pair, and that the sex of an offspring was determined by whether the sperm cell which fertilized the egg carried an X or a Y chromosome. Thus, sex was determined at conception, and at no other time. We used to chuckle at stories that King Henry VIII was angered by his first two wives because they gave birth to female rather than male babies, at least as far as the ones who survived infancy. With modern knowledge, we knew it was actually Henry, and not Catherine of Aragon or Anne Boleyn, who determined the sex of his children. Now, in the 21st century, political correctness demands we abandon scientific knowledge. The formulation “sex assigned at birth” is simply political propaganda to support transgenderism.

Skateboarder Taylor Silverman led the chorus of discontent, writing in an Instagram post: “Male wins women’s finals and money at Boardr Open NYC presented by DC today. My story is not unique in skateboarding.”

Silverman, who has been skateboarding for 11 years, previously complained on social media that she had lost to transgender rivals twice, including at the Redbull Cornerstone competition in May, when she missed out on $5,000 in prize money by coming in second.

“I deserved to place first, be acknowledged for my win, and get paid,” she wrote. “I reached out to Redbull and was ignored. I am sick of being bullied into silence.”

Silverman’s post from May 17 drew a mixed response, with some users fully supporting her stance, while others accusing her of being a sore loser, with one commenter writing: “lol or you could just … be better at skating & actually win the already fair contest?”

Mr Tres’ win is hardly something as big as Will Thomas’ victory in the NCAA nationals, but it’s simply one more piece of evidence that males are not the same as females, and in athletic contests in which size, speed, strength, quickness and endurance are factors, biological males will always have an advantage over females. Simple common sense — something apparently not quite as common as we like to think — has told us this all along, and the 50 year anniversary of Title IX, celebrated just four days ago, is being bitch-slapped by males claiming to be women competing against real women in sports. There’s some real irony that the American left are using ‘transgenderism’ to undermine the opportunities for real women.

I’ll ask it again: why would biological males who are convinced that they are really female, and who want other people to recognize them as women, undertake actions which prove just how different ‘transgender women’ are from real women?

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The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Washington show trial

Though he has been out of office for 17 months now, Donald Trump lives on, rent-free, in the skulls of the left. Four of the lovely Amanda Marcotte’s last five Salon articles are all about Trump, Trump, Trump!,, and, as always, the editors of The Philadelphia Inquirer feel Mr Trump knocking on the inside of their skulls as well. I will admit it: I missed this bit of dumbness from the Inky on Tuesday, but they were good enough to tweet about it to alert me:

Liz Cheney’s lonely fight against the extremist wing of the GOP | Editorial

Cheney’s work on the committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, 2021, has come at great professional and personal cost, including death threats.

by the Editorial Board | Tuesday, June 14, 2022

It shouldn’t make headlines when a member of Congress upholds their sworn oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” But Rep. Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) stands out as one of the few elected Republicans in Washington willing to put country before party.

The vice chair of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol understands that the peaceful transfer of power is the linchpin of our democracy. She also fully grasps the historic importance of ensuring accountability for the months-long effort by Donald Trump and his minions to steal the 2020 presidential election that culminated in the deadly insurrection at the Capitol.

Can we tell the truth here, since the Inky omitted it? Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) is not on the committee because the GOP appointed her, but because Speaker Nancy Pelosi did, to try to make it seem as though this was bi-partisan. There are two, and only two, Republican members, Miss Cheney and Rep Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) on the committee, the only two Republicans who voted to establish it in the first place. Mr Kinzinger, one of just ten Republicans who voted to impeach President Trump, could see the handwriting on the wall, and decided not to seek re-election.

Also see: Robert Stacy McCain: The J6 Smear Machine

I can’t just copy-and-paste the entire editorial, but you can read it if you follow the embedded link. The Editorial Board lament that Miss Cheney has lost power and prestige within the Republican caucus, and that she’s very likely to lose the Republican primary for re-nomination for Wyoming’s at-large House of Representatives seat.

The Inquirer Editorial Board does not typically agree with Cheney’s policy positions. She is a hard-line conservative who voted with Trump 93% of the time. But we agree that Trump is a danger to democracy, which is why we’re taking the unusual step of endorsing Cheney in the upcoming congressional primary.

This is where it truly got funny. The Editorial Board absolutely refused to endorse any Republican candidates in the Pennsylvania GOP primaries, due to their pro-life positions, but here they’ve endorsed Miss Cheney, who is pro-life herself, because Mr Trump is living so loudly within their skulls.

While most of our readers can’t vote for Cheney, they can donate to her campaign, send a message of support, encourage friends in her district to vote for her, and talk with friends and family about the ongoing threat to democracy that the Trump wing of the GOP represents.

In the 2020 presidential election, President Trump received 193,559 votes, 69.94% of the total, compared to Mr Biden’s 73,491, or 26.55%, and the Cowboy State provided Mr Trump’s largest percentage margin in 2020. The vast majority of Wyoming’s residents will never read or even hear of the Editorial Board’s position, and even if they do, the silly thing is behind the Inquirer’s paywall!

Friday will mark the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, which led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation. Nixon’s abuse of power and obstruction of justice were also a threat to democracy and the rule of law, but Republicans in Congress placed the Constitution and country above politics. Their actions were bolstered by public opinion shaped by the same set of facts. In today’s America, where right-wing pundits spin the truth Trump’s way on Fox News and the internet, it’s more difficult to reach consensus.

Watergate was an actual, serious — and completely unnecessary — crime, something that the Capitol kerfuffle really isn’t. The left want to call it treason, sedition, an insurrection, but the kerfufflers weren’t even armed. It’s kind of difficult to stage some sort of coup d’etat without any guns. Even Adolf Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch was better planned than January 6th as far as insurrections go.

Cheney’s lonely fight for her fellow Republicans’ support suggests Congress cannot be counted on this time. If the House Select Committee’s attempt to bring Trump to justice fails, it will be left to voters to remind candidates and incumbents who have dismissed the ongoing attack on our democracy that the people will have the last word.

Of course, the neither the House Select Committe, nor the House of Representatives as a whole, nor the Congress as a whole, can “bring Trump to justice”. The Congress has no power to issue indictments, and the two futile impeachments have demonstrated that a third attempt would be just as much of a waste of time and money. Meanwhile, the public are suffering under an 8.6% inflation rate, the economy contracted 1.4% during the first quarter, and store shelves are occasionally empty. This House Select Committee farce is very much about trying to deflect the voters’ attention away from the failures of the Biden Administration today by trying to focus them on 17 months ago. Attorney General Merrick Garland, who absolutely hates Republicans for denying him a Supreme Court seat, and his minions at the Department of Justice, do have the power to indict former President Trump on whatever crimes for which they can find evidence, but it’s laughable to picture being able to seat an impartial jury against him.

Republicans agitated for President Trump’s entire term to bring Hillary Clinton and her minions to justice, and it never happened. President Gerald Ford, with his pardon of former President Richard Nixon, pretty much established that the United States was not going to put former Presidents on trial, so the House is now engaged in something not that dissimilar from the Moscow show trials.

From 1861 to 1865, we were engaged in what Abraham Lincoln called a “great Civil War,” but, after the defeat of the Confederacy, no one was brought to trial for treason or revolution against the United States. Robert E Lee was charged, but never tried. Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured, and held in irons in a casemate at Fort Monroe for two years before any trial, but was eventually released on bail; no trial was ever held, as President Andrew Johnson, on Christmas Day of 1868, issued a blanket “pardon and amnesty” for treason to “every person who directly or indirectly participated in the late insurrection or rebellion.”

The Editorial Board and the Democrats want to treat the Capitol kerfuffle more harshly than the Civil War, which saw a million Americans, civilian and military, sent early to their eternal rewards.

The Editorial Board concluded:

(I)t will be left to voters to remind candidates and incumbents who have dismissed the ongoing attack on our democracy that the people will have the last word.

In the end, that much is true. And while the general election is still 4½ months away, and anything can happen, the probabilities are that the voters will have that last word by ending the Democrats’ majority in the House of Representatives and quite possibly the Senate as well. If the Republicans regain control of the Congress, will they hold show trial hearings over the Mrs Clinton and her campaign and the faked ‘Russian collusion’ scheme? They could, and today’s Democrats have set the precedent to allow them to do so.

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Locking themselves in their own little world

For “Pride” month, The Washington Post published an article which said the quiet part out loud:

Behind the visible queerness in women’s sports — and why it matters

Perspective by Frankie de la Cretaz | Friday, June 10, 2022 | 10:47 AM EDT

Alyssa is dating DeWanna who used to be married to Candice; Jasmine and Natisha are engaged, and Natisha and Courtney used to date. Allie and a different Courtney are married, while Diana married her former teammate, Penny. No, this isn’t an episode about Alice’s chart on “The L Word”: It’s the WNBA, where romances among teammates and league rivals are as expected as a lethal three-point shot.

And it’s not just the WNBA that sees intracommunity romance: NWSL stars and teammates Ashlyn Harris and Ali Krieger are married, while Australia-U.S. national soccer team rivals Sam Kerr and Kristie Mewis are dating (made famous by the “They’re lesbians, Stacey” meme). In women’s hockey, three different pairs of former Team USA and Team Canada players are married — Meghan Duggan and Gillian Apps; Julie Chu and Caroline Ouellette; and Kathleen Kauth and Jayna Hefford.

It’s a dynamic that is exclusive to women’s sports culture, sometimes making team dynamics complicated. But it’s not just gossip that makes these romances of interest — this kind of insular, interconnected relationship web is very common in lesbian and lesbian-adjacent culture at large.

There’s a lot more at the original, but the article is so positive toward homosexual relationships that it fails to ask a very obvious question: if women’s team sports are so heavily dominated by lesbians, does this suppress the participation of heterosexual girls who might otherwise want to try out, but are uncomfortable with the idea of a lesbian locker room? Continue reading →

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You will comply, or we’ll starve your children!

Stacy Dean, from her government biography page.

Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture Stacy Dean said, “Whether you are grocery shopping, standing in line at the school cafeteria, or picking up food from a food bank, you should be able to do so without fear of discrimination. No one should be denied access to nutritious food simply because of who they are or how they identify.” From that statement, who would ever think that he would threaten to withhold Food and Nutrition Service funds as punishment for those who Do Not Comply? Continue reading →